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Sale 2684 - Lot 137

Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,500
ROMAN VISHNIAC (1897-1990)
One of the People of the Book, Warsaw. 1938; printed circa 1977.
Silver print, the image measuring 12⅜x10⅜ inches (31.4x26.4 cm.), the mount 20x16 inches (50.8x40.6 cm.), with Vishniac's signature in ink on mount recto, and a "The Vanished World" portfolio label with Vishniac's credit, print number, and edition notation in ink, on mount verso.

This is the print number 2 (of 14), from a limited edition of 50 portfolios published in May 1977 by Witkin-Berley Ltd., New York.

WITH--A Farmer of Vysni Apsa. Circa 1935-38; printed 1970s. Silver print, the image measuring 10⅝x8 inches (27x20.3 cm.), with Vishniac's signature in ink on recto.

This portrait of a farmer and tanner made circa 1935-38 in Vysni Apsa, Carpathian Ruthenia, is a well-known image by Roman Vishniac, but the photographer's caption did not name the man. When Lisa Wahler saw this photograph in the US Holocaust Memorial's permanent collection, she recognized her grandfather, Chaim Simcha Mechlowitz. Her grandfather was deported to Auschwitz after Germany occupied Hungary in March 1944. He did not survive. [source: US Holocaust Memorial Museum]
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